敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS）
Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies
摘自《修行講記》
A man cannot receive spiritual knowledge except he be converted, and become as a little child. For only then does he experience that delight which belongs to the Kingdom of the Heavens. By ‘Kingdom of the ……
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS）
Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies
摘自《神修訓話》
Know with certainty, therefore, that to stand is not within your power, nor does it pertain to your virtue, but it belongs to grace herself which carries you upon the palm of her hand, that you may not be alarm ……
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS）
Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies
摘自《神修訓話》
Silence is a mystery of the age to come, but words are instruments of this world.
靜默是來世的奧秘，而言語則是此世的工具。
The passions are like dogs accustomed to lick blood in butchers’ shops. When these are barred from what ……
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS）
Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies
摘自《神修訓話》
As long as you have feet, run after work, before you are bound with that bond which cannot be loosed again once it is put on. As long as you have hands, stretch them out to Heaven in prayer, before your arms fal ……
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS）
Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies
摘自《神修訓話》
The carnal man fears death like a beast fears slaughter. The rational man fears the judgement of God. But the man who has become a son is adorned by love and is not taught by the rod of fear; he says, ‘But I an ……
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS）
Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies
摘自《神修訓話》
A gift free of trials is a disaster to those who receive it.
未經誘惑而獲得的恩賜對領受它的人而言，是一種災禍。
To choose what is good belongs to the good volition of the man who desires it; but to realize the choice of the good voliti ……
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS）
Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies
摘自《神修訓話》
We should not be exceedingly grieved when we make a slip in some matter, but when we persist in it; for even the perfect often slip, but to persist therein is total death.
若是我們在某件事上失足跌倒了（意卽犯罪），我們不應過於悲傷；但是，如果我們不斷 ……
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS）
Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies
摘自《神修訓話》
If you cannot be merciful, at least speak as though you are a sinner. If you are not a peacemaker, at least do not be a troublemaker. If you cannot be assiduous, at least in your thought be like a sluggard. If y ……
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS）
Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies
摘自《神修訓話》
Mercy and justice in one soul is like a man who worships God and the idols in one house.
在一個靈魂內具有仁慈與公義兩種品質就好比一個人在同一間房間裏敬拜上帝與偶像。
As grass and fire cannot coexist in one place, so justice and mercy can-not abid ……
敘利亞的聖以撒的靈修箴言（PEARLS）
Short Quotations Gathered From the Ascetical Homilies
摘自《神修訓話》
Do not approach the words of the mysteries contained in the divine Scriptures without prayer and beseeching God for help, but say: Lord, grant me to perceive the power in them! Reckon prayer to be the key to th ……